Record ID:
127926
Accession number:
MA 14
Description:
1 item (32 p.), bound ; 16.4 cm
Notes:
George W. Corner notes that the account was composed shortly after the trip and that the present manuscript is "carefully written in copybook style not resembling [Benjamin Rush's] hand."--Cf. The Autobiography of Benjamin Rush, p. 66, n. 78.
Originally cataloged as a manuscript by James Beekman.
Summary:
An account of his journey to Paris in February to March, 1769, with his impressions of French agriculture, architecture, theater, medicine, and society.
Binding:
Quarter green leather over green cloth covered boards.
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